Good call! I've got numerous coworkers who have lost their houses and are now scattered all over the country. Most were at work until 2 in afternoon and then had to fight their way south through massive traffic backups. Took them over 2hrs to get home(normally takes 45min), to then just grab family and and few items and then head back up north to the site they just left. This time it took 5hours. One coworker said he was driving thru parks and down pedestrian walkways just to get onto Hwy63.
I've taken a bunch of groceries to NorthStar Ford to Cochrane to go north. Now that most of the evacuees have been relocated south the Red Cross really needs cash donations. Take that gas money and donate it to the Red Cross.
Also I've seen how green it is in the city, my acreage near Cochrane isn't near that green yet. Plus its been windy everyday. With SRD moving the majority of their fire fighting resources north a fire down here would screw us big time.
A jeep can start a fire just as easily as an ATV. A jeep stopped in tall grass can start a fire off the exhaust, it doesn't even have to touch the grass, when its that dry just the heat radiating off can start a fire like pointing a hair drier and some dry tinder. Mud and grass that got packed around the exhaust going through a mud hole can later dry out and fall out on the trail and sit there and smolder till it starts up.
Topic: Provincial wide fire ban (Read 6653 times)